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On the nature of the Intellectual-Principle we get light from
its manifestations; they show that it demands such diversity as
is compatible with its being a monad. Take what principle you
will, that of plant or animal: if this principle were a pure
unity and not a specifically varied thing, it could not so serve
as principle; its product would be Matter, the principle not
having taken all those forms necessary if Matter is to be
permeated and utterly transformed. A face is not one mass; there
are nose and eyes; and the nose is not a unity but has the
differences which make it a nose; as bare unity it would be mere
mass.
There is infinity in Intellectual-Principle since, of its very
nature, it is a multiple unity, not with the unity of a house but
with that of a Reason-Principle, multiple in itself: in the one
Intellectual design it includes within itself, as it were in
outline, all the outlines, all the patterns. All is within it,
all the powers and intellections; the division is not determined
by a boundary but goes ever inward; this content is held as the
living universe holds the natural forms of the living creatures
in it from the greatest to the least, down even to the minutest
powers where there is a halt at the individual form. The
discrimination is not of items huddled within a sort of unity;
this is what is known as the Universal Sympathy, not of course
the sympathy known here which is a copy and prevails amongst
things in separation; that authentic Sympathy consists in all
being a unity and never discriminate.
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